This caught my eye:

"The results of the American Student Survey reveal how students perceive companies/organizations as employers in the United States. The research functions as a basis for decision-making when choosing target groups, messages and channels for future employer branding campaigns, and as a control instrument for measuring the appeal ( Read more... )

I've already hit my one-entry-on-academics_anon-every-six-months quota for 2010, and academics_uk must be sick of the sight of my username by now, so I'm putting this here ( Read more... )

"Today’s Pope Center Clarion Call (http://popecenter.org/clarion_call/article.html?id=2318) by Mary Grabar is about an incident in Georgia that led to some interesting revelations. To the education professors, cheating by school officials to raise scores on ( Read more... )

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http://www.sabbathmanifesto.org/unplug

http://www.disinfo.com/?p=24666

I should award bonus points to anyone who can spot the feeble attempt at anti_gravitas continuity, there. But SRSLY...

'...one very specific type of communication - the swearword - has been selected for special attention at The Petra Christian University, Surabaya, Indonesia (http://www.petra.ac.id/ ( Read more... )

Captured in the wild - another Boing Boing/LiveJournal embedded video f*ck up:


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Fact: Without time and date stamps on comments, most of the unofficial LiveJournal betting syndicates would be utterly sunk.

"Professor John Hall has not taught on campus since Jan. 14, when, during a comparative economics course, he accused a 30-year-old student of being an FBI informant and threatened to place posters of him around campus."

Okay, strap yourselves in...

"A bizarre blowup between a professor and a student in a Portland State University classroom ( Read more... )

Being very kind there with my use of the word "plot":

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/technology/Canadian+researcher+calls+radical+strategy+reflect+rays/2495132/story.html

...didn't anyone ever tell the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists that if you turn a clock backwards it's bad for the mechanism?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8460324.stm

Have a great weekend, everyone.